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Between 1989 and 1993, Jean Marcel published Triptyque des temps perdus, a trilogy of three novels shot through with generic and chronological tensions. Having defined the Triptyque as belonging to the genre of the historical biographical novel, we offer a two-part analysis of the paradoxical relationship between writing of a dim and remote past—the decline of the Roman empire—and the undeniable modernity of Jean Marcel's work. On the one hand, through the antique figures of Hypatie, Jérôme and Sidoine, Marcel speaks of the modern era and its constituent tension between what is perishable and what is changeless. On the other hand, he starts from questions raised by modernity to renew some of the formal aspects — documentation, utterance, narration — of a genre seen as obsolete: the biographical historical novel. In terms of writing, Triptyque ultimately shares the modern literary concerns of other contemporary fictions with a biographical dimension.
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This research aims to examine ancient accounts that can be compared to the modern practice of the notebook, and in particular Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, in their relationship to notes (hypomnemata/commentarii), philosophical accounts derived from meditatio, and letters. The comparison with the processes at work in Marcus Aurelius' correspondence with Fronto makes it possible to grasp all the social and cultural refusals involved in the choice to write the Meditations.
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If we examine the reception given to the novels and stories by French women writers between the wars (1919-1939) in the very years of their publication, one reaction is recurrent: contemporary readers and critics (men and women alike) find that women publish a lot of autobiographical stories. Is this production a crucible of the expression of the intimate? If the existential substratum is very present in women's writing, is self-writing practiced openly? We look at the various configurations of the intimate in texts by Mireille Havet and Catherine Pozzi, autobiographical narratives and personal diaries. The stories Carnaval (Havet) and Agnès (Pozzi) are inscribed in a horizon of expectation that corresponds to the spirit of the times and implement strategies to filter the intimate. In their diaries, the authors attempt to construct a relationship with the self, rather than just images of it. The different treatment of intimacy in stories and diaries influences the reader's reception of them and plays a role in the degree of obsolescence of the text.
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AbstractThe object of this article is the genre dynamics in Hubert Aquin's novel Neige noire. Our interpretation of this novel aims at highlighting the genre hybridization model adopted by Aquin in his last completed work, in which he blends, in a unique way, the scenario and the novel. The combination of these genres in Neige noire is the result of a kinetic conception of intergenericity, where neither genre turns out to be fixed in a definitive way.